Messoud Ashina is Professor of Neurology and Director of the Center of Migraine Discoveries at the Department of Neurology & Danish Headache Center, Rigshospitalet Glostrup, the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. He is a Past President of the International Headache Society (2019–2021) and is past General Secretary of the European Headache Federation.
Prof. Ashina’s research interests include the pathophysiology of migraine and mechanisms of action of antimigraine medications, as well as experimental migraine models, functional neuroimaging, and novel antimigraine drug targets. He has authored over 500 papers, abstracts and book chapters on the topic of headache, including migraine and cluster headache.
